First, here’s the photo of the Facebook post from Kappa Sigma at Louisiana Tech, which was written in regard to where the chapter finished in grades (near the bottom among IFC fraternities).

This story makes me want to slam my head through my desk for a myriad of reasons.

1. What the fuck was this kid thinking? Arguably, we shouldn’t be surprised since this came from the one of the dumbest chapters on campus. If it’s not in line with the members’ beliefs, it’s likely at least in line with their intelligence, because for seemingly the millionth time, this incident serves as a reminder that nothing is private. NOTHING. Not only was this not funny, it was just downright unnecessary, pointless, and offensive. I’ll defend something innocuous, like wearing sombreros at Cinco themed socials until the day I die–which will likely at least be in part due to my heavy margarita consumption, ironically–but this post is just horrible form. You, dear readers, can sit in the comments and cry about how it shouldn’t matter what you say in private, or how this was a violation of the fraternity’s privacy, or cite the First Amendment, but those arguments may as well all begin with, “In a perfect world…” which more or less makes them meaningless, because we do not live in that world. Also, maybe don’t be assholes. Well, we’re all assholes here, just don’t be assholes in that way.

2. If someone from the chapter leaked this, then fuck you, buddy. Chapter business is chapter business. That doesn’t mean bury it and forget about it, it means that if something pissed you off, offended you, or whatever, you deal with it internally. Even if the issue needs to be taken to nationals because it’s truly terrible or unfixable at the chapter level (this excludes things such as sexual assault, which require external intervention) you handle it by using one of the MANY avenues the fraternity has paved for you. You will get a much more reasonable and just ruling from those options than you ever will from the court of public opinion. The latter’s punishment is always the same: burn everything.

3. Any sort of grief this kid gets or trouble this causes him in the future, the unreasonable aside, is something he deserves. You know why I wouldn’t hire a kid who flippantly dropped an N-bomb on the Internet? It would have less to do with the fact that he is racist (though that wouldn’t exactly be downplayed) and more to do with the reality that he’s an idiot with a proven and poor track record of representing his organizations. Hard pass on that sort of dumbass.

4. This might just be one kid who wrote this, and Facebook groups for fraternities tend to be relatively informal, but anything with your fraternity’s name on the banner represents your fraternity. I’m not saying act accordingly all the time, because those groups are fun to be in for a reason and stuff like funny hook up pictures from the past weekend are always a delight, but constantly have that knowledge in the back of your head.

The poster put an apology out on Facebook, but that doesn’t really matter at this point, whether it should or shouldn’t. Damage done.

Kappa Sigma’s nationals are aware of the situation and say action against the individual has been taken, but they have given no word on whether or not the kid will be or already has been expelled from the fraternity.

Why have a private group if you can’t say what you want to say? Racism is not illegal, point blank. Even if the kid was half kidding, it’s a private group with his brothers who most likely share somewhat similar views as he does. Even if he’s wrong for saying what he said, his 1st amendment right should absolutely be protected so long as it does not encourage violence, see R.A.V. vs. City of St. Paul. Fucking bullshit and fuck the sensitive little cunt that leaked it.

Racism not being illegal has nothing to do with this. At all. He isn’t suffering legal consequences. No one is suffering legal consequences. He and his social fraternity are suffering social consequences. It’s well within the fraternity’s right to kick him out for that. It’s probably within the school’s right to punish the fraternity if they see fit, though that would be excessive and stupid considering it was (hopefully) an isolated incident. And I agree, fuck the kid that leaked it.

You keep saying “fuck the kid that posted it” which seriously fuck that kid. But then why give him and his snitching ass any publicity? What purpose and use do the rest of us have with this information? All this does is spark outrage. Other articles tend to be funny and light hearted. Which is what I’d argue most join and follow the sight for, as well as destroying the moral of geeds the world over. However, all you’re doing by posting this article is validating his breech of trust with his brothers.

He used it as an example of what not to do. Under no circumstances do you make private conversations public. Also, nothing is truly private in today’s world, and you really do need to have that in the back of your mind whenever you a posting something on the internet. It will be there forever and bet your ass someone will find it. That was the point of the article. But I guess you didn’t really get that?

Yeah, you are right. Racism is not illegal and that is why he wasn’t punished by law. You are allowed to say whatever you want, but that does not mean there will not be consequences. When you are a representation of any program they have every right to take the actions they did to in order to protect their reputation.

Thank you. Whenever something like this comes up, people (and by people I mean idiots) always scream about first amendment rights, such as with Donald Sterling, or the Duck Dynasty guy. But that is not the case or applicable. If the police came knocking at his door and handed him some violation or fine, or threw him in jail, then it would be. But a private organization like a fraternity at a school, that school, or that fraternity’s national chapter handling something they deem inappropriate internally is fine. Go ahead, go up to your boss, call him some racial slur, and complain about your first amendment rights when you are fired, or at least given grunt work for a month. Tell me how that works out for you.

What the guy said was wrong, but who the hell hasn’t said something racist in their lives? Everybody is really cool with the fact that people are going to try to ruin this kids life for saying that in what he thought was private?

I go to school with this kid. He got kicked out of Kappa Sig, fired from his job, and his specific college pretty much told him to fuck off. He was trying to get into med school and they shut him down. Kappa Sig just got off of probation too.

As a black guy I’m conflicted. The kid should have the freedom to say whatever he wants among his peers in a PRIVATE setting regardless of how bigoted the subject matter.That being said you would think his pledge BROTHER would have the decency and class to keep such a post internally to be dealt with since now you see a kid’s reputation eternally tarnished for something he said in private. While I in no way am feeling sorry for that racist fuck I will acknowledge his rights as an American of free speech/expression.

If your fraternity’s private FB page actually has your fraternity’s name and chapter letters to where you can easily be identified, then your web page/PR chairman needs to fix that immediately. There’s no reason why these kinds of incidents should still be happening.

I would like to nominate Bacon for asshole of the week for leaking the leak onto TFM and then saying fuck that kid who leaked it. He pretty much just gave the kid a bid, told him to ass fuck the chapter president’s girl friend, video taped it, and played in at chapter meeting over the weekend. Alpha Phi Alpha is already going to go all Django/Man Dingo on him anyway

Unfortunatey for this guy he was never taught how properly express his opinion. Brothers, if you see something wrong act on it. And though it may upset certain people, in the long run those upset will be thanking you

1. Go fuck yourself
2. Fuck the guy that leaked this
3. Go fuck yourself again
4. I’m not even in a “blacks only” frat but I’m tired of people saying “black frats are racist because they don’t let white people in”. There’s a difference between not letting white people in and white people not rushing. Just like any other Greek organization you get a bid based on fitting in with the frat. If only 1 white person shows interest in joining every 3 or 4 semesters the odds aren’t exactly in their favor. I’m all for being selective and all but stop trying to justify your own racism by pointing out non existent racism somewhere else.

How did you get that out of what I said? It’s racist if you exclude someone because of race. Saying we don’t let white people In our frat is racist. Saying we don’t let black people in our frat is racist. Not letting someone in because they don’t fit in due to anything other than race isn’t racist. This isn’t rocket science. I know quite a few white guys in historically black fraternities because you know what? The guys liked him and they fit in.